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Why awareness of new and novel treatments?

The pharmaceutical industry is approaching a “patent cliff” whereby the strong market position it currently holds is set to decline over the coming few years.

The majority of drugs that were approved for use recently have been researched and developed not by “big Pharma” but by the smaller pharmaceutical companies.

Drugs are given a clinical score by health professionals who generally will see a person with a given condition as a number rather than a human being.

Health professionals may generate a prescription for a medication against its considered efficacy as opposed to its proven efficacy.

An often neglected point is whether a particular medication, whose clinical trials score apparently show improvements, will actually assist in improving a persons “quality of life”.

Improved clinical trial parameter scores should be set against whether the use of the medication will add to the persons quality of life. That is for them to actually be “feeling better”.

 

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A World of Possibilities Tomorrow?

Medical research - Although needed and in many cases it is important, but how much of it is important and how much of it is pointless?

We are constantly being inundated with the word “wonder drug”. Nearly every week the word is touted throughout the media.

Millions and millions of pounds is dedicated to researching for miracle cures, constantly raising hopes amongst millions of sufferers, only for their hopes to be dashed.

Annually billions of pounds is spent on medical research of which most is provided, directly or indirectly, by the tax payer.

Very little of this money is dedicated to research into Quality of Life support such as:

 

 

 

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Why Autoimmune Disease?

 

A varied group of chronic conditions that involve almost every human organ system which includes:

Unlike cancer, which is an umbrella category for a range of diseases, auto-immunity has yet to be embraced by the medical community, and the public, as a category of diseases.

 

Autoimmune Diseases cross the different medical specialities such as:

 

Because these specialities usually focus on chronic conditions within their particular category, there has been virtually no general focus on auto-immunity as the underlying cause.

 

Even though there is some universally accepted knowledge about auto-immunity its victims, mostly women - have suffered from a lack of focus and a scattered research approach.